Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains

by Bushell, Dr. Stephen W. and William M. Laffan

$25,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

New York: Privately Printed by Order of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan (DeVinne Press &, 1911. First, Limited Edition. Fine. 2 volumes; Royal 8vo; 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (240 x 160 mm); Vol. 1: pp. xvii + 196 pp.; Vol. 2: lxxiii + 145 pp. 158 chromolithographs with rice paper guards inscribed with legend in red ink, legends pasted on the border of the image in vol. 2. In vol. 2 plate no. 147 is used as a frontispiece. Volume 1 of this set includes an additional chromolithograph of a Glazed Earthenware Fish Bowl, with the mark "The Connoisseur" tipped into the last fly leaves. LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. Each volume includes an index of cases with schematic drawings and key numbers, as well as Chinese characters and diagrams of maker marks. Top edges gilt, rest uncut; Dark green-brown pebbled morocco, with gold fillets on boards, five raised bands on spines, title in gilt with gilt decorations in compartments. Fillets on wide turn-ins, moss green moiré silk and morocco doublures, spine lightly sunned on volume 1 and small bump at spine head. Volume 2 bound in slightly darker and more pebbled morocco, with similar detailing and moiré-silk doublures. From J. PIERPONT MORGAN'S OWN LIBRARY, with his own morocco bookplate pasted on the first flyleaf and with the PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION around the bookplate "Sir Guy Laking | with kind regards | J. Pierpont Morgan | Library | Octo. 22 1906. The two volume set is quite rare, and these are beautiful copies of the 250 pri

• Publisher: Privately Printed by Order of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan (DeVinne Press &
• Year: 1911
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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